he's seen law enforcement personnel wearing respirators, obviously, it's a fertilizer plant it's not clear what kind of things may be burning. local residents said the plant would have been closed down at the time of the explosion. it seems they are setting up for and hospitals have seen a large number of wounded people. erin burnett is going to be taking over her coverage of this blast. obviously this is a major story we're following. >> a major story. looking at the pictures we saw, the plume of spoke. we begin with the breaking news. nearly 100 people may have been injured in the explosion at a fertilizer plant in west texas tonight. you're looking at the live pictures you can see on the right of your screen, the blast happened around 7:50 p.m. local time. that's central standard time.

sending a huge plume of smoke in the air. it's just about 18 miles north of waco texas. joined on the phone by glenn robinson, the ceo of hillcrest hospital. glenn, thank you for taking the time to speak with us here. what do you know right now? i know we're trying to understand how many people are in need of help tonight? >> erin, good evening. we have received more than 40 patients. many have been brought by ambulance. the rest brought by private vehicle. maybe that 25 by ground ambulance. we've just received word that the weather is starting to clear. we've had high winds in the area that were forcing our choppers to be grounded. now they're becoming airborne and getting some of the critically injured from the scene here. we're being told by authorities on the site we are to anticipate

additional injuries coming in. as you reported coming out of the break, the field hospital triage center has been set up by our heart of texas rac. they're assessing many other injuries at this time. we are blessed with a large number of staff that have already come in. our folks responded extremely well this evening. and everything is going well. we're backed up also by scott white memorial hospital, which is 30 miles away in temple. and also we have been able to ship out two children that were injured, seriously and felt that they would be best cared for at our children's hospital. and so they're being cared for there. >> glenn. the patients, talk about the 40 you have received. can you tell us what sorts of

injuries they have at this time? it was sparked by fertilizer at this point? we don't know all the details. what can you tell us about the source of the injuries? >> the injuries we have seen thus far are the types of injuries you would see following an explosion. they're blast injuries, orthopedic injuries. large wounds and those sorts of things. those are the majority of the injuries we have seen thus far. a lot of lacerations, a lot of cuts. i've also been given, often times people like this want information about their loved ones, we have just set up a special hotline. and that number is 254-202-1100. if you have a loved one that you're concerned about, you can call this number. it's being staffed here at the hospital. it's 254-202-1100. please call that number, not our switchboard at this time, and we'll be able to properly handle

it and try to get information about your loved one to you as soon as possible. >> glenn, i know you need to get back to your work, but just a question, so we have an understanding, when you talk about these blast injuries and the lacerations you're seeing, and so many people coming into the hospital. are these life or death injuries? are they critical care situation right now? >> our medical team is assessing them. as you would imagine, erin, some of these injuries are quite serious. we're seeing a number of minor injuries as well. we're seeing some folks that are very seriously injured this evening unfortunately. >> glenn, thank you very much. and hopefully we'll have a chance to talk to you again soon. i know obviously this is changing moment by moment for you, and we appreciate your taking the time tonight. glenn robinson is the ceo of the hospital in waco texas. they have 40 patients who have come in from the west fertilizer plant. many of those injuries are very serious, including large blast injuries and lacerations.

i want to bring in barry murray now, he's a resident of waco. did you see anything, hear anything? >> we were standing in our house, in our living room whenever the explosion happened. it was like a bomb went off. we didn't really know what happened. we walked outside and saw a big cloud of smoke up in the air. and then -- just a few minutes later, emergency vehicles everywhere. they come from the towns around, i guess. it's been overwhelming here. and now i -- we're being asked to evacuate. so we're grabbing our stuff now. >> how far away are you from the plant? >> we're one mile. >> you just got the ervacuation

order, where are you going to go? >> i don't know. we have several options, friends and family. >> and to make sure i understand, you said this sounded like a bomb when it went off, the first explosion? >> the second bomb sounded like it was in the backyard. i didn't hear the noise, i didn't hear the sound of a bomb, it was the compression of it, it hit so hard, you could see everything. all the houses and buildings and stuff around us. >> and the windows were blown out? >> yes. my mom lives in -- >> thank you very much. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. barry, one mile away, all the windows blown out. he said it sounded like a large

bomb explosion in his backyard. the magnitude of the situation that we're finding here, i want to bring in anderson cooper, he was on during the last hour as you were getting information about the size of the explosion, the smoke plumes, it obviously seems to be very significant. but we don't know yet what caused it. >> we don't. we're looking into videotape from the chopper. there are choppers in the air, both medical choppers ferrying patients to the hospital you spoke with, that's also the triage unit we're seeing. there's a still photo that shows a large plume of smoke. which is significant, as of the ten minutes ago, the video -- there's the still image. it was still burning as of 10 minutes ago, that's the latest information i had. the live video i've seen of the actual fire. it seems like a number of the injuries are not necessarily people who were at the plant. although clearly whoever was at the plan the would be involved in the injuries as well.

also, they were seeing young people, children in some cases. so it seems like this may have had an impact in the surrounding area, we're not clear what kind of a radius. >> that's right. we were talking to a gentleman, he was saying the windows were blown out. as anderson said, we don't yet know. let me bring in krystle anthony. what did you see? >> it was on fire. all of a sudden it just exploded. it blew everything within 60 feet back. it was an apartment complex that was devastated. the nursing home. the fire was close to a residential area. >> krystle, how far away were

you? >> not even 100 yards. >> not even 100 yards, i don't know if you just heard what barry said, he said it felt like a bomb in his backyard, a lot of his windows were blown out. i can't imagine -- >> yes, it must have been worse where you are. >> yes, i was close, i live by there. actually, we're getting ready to go to an emergency school board meeting, so i'm going to have to go. >> all right. well, that we understand. thank you very much, chrystal, we appreciate your time. this is in a residential area. reuters has reported the nursing home could have had a collapse, we don't know more information on that. we're going to keep updating you on this, you can see the pictures we're showing you right now of the fire burning. the latest we understand right now, from the ceo of the

hospital. 40 patients right now have been taken into the hospital with blast injuries, lacerations, large wounds. some of them, he said very seriously injured. i want to bring ken suri in now of the waco tribune harolerald. what can you tell us? we're looking at these pictures which are an inferno, and hearing these horrible stories from people nearby. >> we're getting similar reports. we have three reporters out there, a couple photographers, one in west, and then another at the hospital here, as they're receiving all the injured. it looks to be significant, no idea on number of injuries or if there are any fatalities. one of the concerns that one of our reporters is hearing about. because it is still burning, there is a second tank that's in the plant. there's a real concern, i think that may be part of the reason for the further evacuation. there are some real fears that

maybe that would go up as well, i don't know what kind of damage that could cause in addition. >> so the second tank, we didn't know about that, what else can you tell us about the neighborhood. we understand it's residential with a nursing home, an apartment complex. can you just give us a little more of a physical sense of how close the plant is to where people live? >> well, west is pretty much a rural community. the plant itself is not far from west middle school, which i understand has taken heavy damage. i believe they have cancelled classes for the next couple days, probably looking at what their options are, there are kind of scattered houses around there, it is rural. a lot of larger properties. i'm sure there is the apartment complex there nearby, and the nursing home which they mentioned, which also suffered damage. so we've got a number of elderly that are probably injured as well.

>> and ken, do you have any knowledge right now as to what caused this? >> no, no idea at all. and our people out on the field are gathering the information. to this point they don't know anything either. i don't know when that assessment can be made. >> we're going to keep trying to get answers on that as well. ken, thank you for your time. ken gets information as we get information. we're going to report it to you. we don't know what caused it. we don't know the scale of the injuries. you can see the fire continuing. ken adding to our understanding here by saying that there was possibly a second tank. that may not have exploded which would be at risk of exploding right now in the west texas fertilizer plant. i want to bring sanjay into the conversation. the ceo of the hospital has

spoken to anderson and myself, talked about the blast injuries. what would you expect out of something like there? >> when you hear fertilizer, you think about some very combustible, potentially explosive chemicals. >> we heard about fertilizer explosions in the past. this is always a concern, besides the blast injury itself. you were talking to someone who said even a couple miles away, they felt the impact of this, the story of the burn, the flash effect and just the chemical itself. i think one of the people who said the guards are wearing respirators. >> they saw state police wearing aspirators. >> that would not surprise me, the air in that area is probably going to quickly become of concern. when you have these sorts of chemicals, those explosives being released in the air in great quantity. we've seen these types of explosions in the past. those are standard protocols,

but frankly all the blast injuries we've been talking about this week with regard to what's happened in boston this those same sorts of injuries you have to be concerned about here as well. >> fertilizer used in explosive devices. you can understand why it would be so flammable. >> we talked about ammonium nitrate. this is -- fertilizer plants are always of concern for that very reason. >> we're talking about where it's located. we talked to someone two miles away, one mile away. they describe it as a rural area, but there's an apartment complex and nursing home. i know you don't know everything about fertilizer plants and where they're located. would it be unusual to be located near a nursing home? >> that's a fair question. but i can tell you, one thing besides the obvious sort of physical damage to the nursing home, the air quality. and this is of no small concern. i imagine trying to rescue

people in the nursing home, the rescue workers themselves, my guess is, they're going to have to be fully brprotected and get clean air, oxygen from the people who are potentially maybe trapped in the nursing home. >> emergency personnel are on the scene. not only set up the triage area. which i was told was a mile or so from the blast. but in some of the images of the fire, you could see some sort of retardant. i don't know if it was water or some other sort of retard end poured on to the flames. you would think they would be trained to react to this kind of a fire? >> yeah, and it sounds like quickly they recognized the need for respirators some dance away. you're probably right. the workers, maybe the workers in the nursing home are doing something to protect themselves so they're not become iing subjected to this --

>> we have information now coming in. i referenced the second fertilizer tank. i can confirm to you now it's still intankt and they're worried it will explode. they're evacuating the area due to a second tank you heard. >> that confirms also, i talked to a resident in the nearby town who was closing up his shop. he said he had been warned about the possibility of a secondary explosion. you referenced that reuters report quoting the texas department of safety, saying that this nursing home has to some degree collapsed and there may be people trapped inside. >> well, let me bring glenn robinson back in. the ceo of hillcrest hospital. could you give us any more information about that nursing home and the status of the patients? >> we're only getting an unofficial report at this point that perhaps part of that nursing home might have collapsed. we pray that is not the situation. we're -- since we last smoke

about 15 minutes ago, we've received another 15 patients that are being triaged at this time. so we are -- we've seen in excess of 60 patients here this evening. in addition to that, we have great support within our system. our sister hospital, memorial, scott white at temple is also assisting. we've been able to gain the support of our maclaine's children's hospital where we've shipped two children to them, where they would receive a higher level of pediatric care. and so things are continuing to move along and accelerate at this particular time. the number of patients that we're seeing. we have great support from our sister hospital across town. providence hospital. that emergency room has been backing us up, and not been in touch with their ceo. they're doing a great job this evening helping us at the

regional trauma center as well. >> glenn, what kinds of patients have you seen? you mentioned children. but in terms of the age range, do you have a lot of elderly patients or at this point do you not have a lot of elderly patients? >> the majority of patients i've seen at this time are just regular families, moms, dads, children that were in their home s or in the apartment complex. some were brought by ambulance, some were brought by private vehicle. we are blessed that the high winds in the region have now subdued and we're able to get our choppers in the air. we have six medevac choppers at the scene bringing patients here. >> how far are you from the blast? >> we're about 18 miles due

south of west texas. west is between waco and the dallas area. you would pass through west at about 15 minutes, that's where the fertilizer plant was located. it's in mcclendon county, we're only 15 minutes by ground and less than that by air. >> glenn, sanjay gupta wanted to ask a question. >> were there any special precautions or anything they had in place for such a disaster? >> no, i mean nothing other than our normal emergency preparedness that all trauma centers across the united states prepared for any hour of any day. we're all blessed with incredible staff of doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, techs and everybody that just respond and we have protocols that

immediately go into place when something like this happens. we called it a code green. we implement that, we practice that, rehearse that and stand by ready 24 hours a day and try to serve communities in which we're blessed to live in. >> thank you very much for now, i know we'll be talking to you again. and keeping us abreast of this. 55 injured. we're going to continue our breaking news coverage of this explosion. and we'll be back in a couple moments. he can focus on his recovery. he doesn't have to worry so much about his mortgage, groceries, or even gas bills. kick! kick... feel it! feel it! feel it! nice work! ♪ you got it! you got it! yes! aflac's gonna help take care of his expenses. and us...we're gonna get him back in fighting shape. ♪

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we continue to follow the breaking news out of west texas. about 18 miles away from waco, there has been a massive explosion tonight at a fertilizer plant. we know right now that at least 55 people have sought emergency medical care. we don't know the status of the first responders. we know the area is being evacuated because of a second fertilizer tank that has not yet exploded. but is at risk of doing so. the explosion happened around 7:50 p.m. central time. there is a plume of smoke. people have described to us within one and two miles away, the windows of their homes have been blown out. there's a nursing home complex, which again reuters reports at this point has partially collapses. we're continuing to follow this breaking story, we have much more on this, and the details as they come in, it's very much a

developing one, we're trying to give you everything we can, as quickly as we can. we're going to be going back to waco in a moment. >> i want to go to our other top story tonight. with two possible suspects in the boston bombing. a law enforcement official tells cnn, two people with pictures near the finish line. we cannot show you the photos. we can tell you the source describes the men of being of high interest because of where they were, and because of what one of the men was carrying. deb feyerick has been working the investigation all day. what can you tell us about it some. >> it's what both of the men were carrying. >> one had a backpack, the other a small dufflebag. both of them were photographed numerous times in and around the phenni

finish line. they have caught the interest of the officials at the highest levels of government who were looking, they're trying to spread these searches around to see if anybody knows or anybody can identify who they are or what it is they could be doing. because of the size, because of the shape of the backpacks, they believe that it was very easy for them to conceal some sort of device, the crock pot -- the pressure cooker inside that bag, they've even isolated parts in the bag that look like it's sort of full. that was one of the things that caught the attention of law enforcement. they're aggressively looking for these men and trying to figure out what they were doing. they don't know who they are, but they have definitely risen to the top of the list. >> wow. when you first reported this, they were interested in talking to them and hear what they had seen. now it seems that it's escalated from that. >> absolutely, 100%. what's fascinating, usually you get one picture and the picture

tells a lot. the newest pictures that i've started to see they're photographed in different angles, at different points. photographed talking to each other, separated from one another. officials are compiling what is a time line of photographs in terms of where they were and what they were doing, and also the attraction between the two of them. >> we're not going to show the pictures and everyone can understand why, they're trying to find these people and talk to these people. we don't want to show their faces. is there any understanding of what these men looked like? >> the one thing, without describing sort of the make-up, what we can tell you, they were dressed so they really blended in. one of them had a white baseball cap. one had a running jacket. they were very casual. they're not people you would necessarily pick out in a crowd of runners. they just blended in with what they were wearing. but, you know, you and i were to go out and watch the new york city marathon, we may dress up

in our sports clothes and blend in. it looks like that's what they were doing as well. we try to understand what the delay, or what the delay is with the press conference, they're trying to apprehend this person and that's the most important thi thing. they have said 1:00, 5:00, 8:00, is it because of photos like this, they think they're close to getting something big? >> i spoke to some folks from the fbi, and they took a lot of heat for cancelling that press conference. they knew that, they're trying to be as open as they can. they don't have five or ten witnesses, they have 1,000 witnesses and they're trying to get these pictures in. they don't want to do anything prematurely. they don't want to jeopardize, the point you mentioned, you don't want to put the pictures of two people out, even though they may look suspicious. they may be innocent. and to get these faces out prematurely could not only tip them off that they're the ones

they're looking for, it could also do irreparable damage. have you those working the investigation, interviewing people, talking to witnesses, creating time lines. they made immense progress given that this is really just about a little more than 48 hours. but still, they have a long, long way to go. and they hope to find these men to be able to question them. but who knows. the men could have just slipped away and disappeared. that is the greater risk. >> deb feyerick, we appreciate it. deb has been breaking this story all the way along in terms of these pictures and how significant they are. i want to bring in tom fuentes into the conversation, you heard the latest of deb's reporting on the importance of this picture, on the two suspects, on what they were wearing. what do you think about how

important these men are? >> well, obviously, erin, they're critical. they want to locate them, they'll have a tremendous amount of information. if by some chance they're not involved in the bombing, then they're certainly prime witnesses, to whoever else may have been, if it wasn't them. i think by the nature of the photographs, of what their activities were, the length of time at the scene. it certainly has a strong appearance that they may have been the ones to be involved in putting that explosive device there on the ground. so very important. >> and also, former u.s. attorney and the former acting director of the atf. deb has been breaking the story on the pictures all the way through the night. earlier reporting they were men of interest. now they're more than that. still may be innocent but they're more than that. >> the investigation is fast moving in many ways, slow and methodical in other ways about it seems to me that law

enforcement is doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing, methodical, careful and very cautious. but at the same time trying to move as quickly as they can. >> when you hear there's 1,000 witnesses as deb is describing itp p you have -- the difficulty in this situation of having almost too much information. too many pictures. does that make this even more difficult? when we look where we are now, you're getting every hour, further away from when this happened. is it possible these people could be gone? >> well, it's possible. but that's true, the amount of information coming in is daunting to separate. it's like being at the bottom of niagara falls trying to find a specific cupful of information that may break the case. that's very hard, and i think at this point they would have made a difficult strategy decision. that's probably what the delay has been in terms of the press conference of the commanders trying to come to an agreement of whether or not to put those pictures on television, and let everybody in the public try to

identify them or in the interim, try to locate them within law enforcement circles. maybe hoping that they could catch one of them and maybe one would cooperate and determine whether the one or two or more are involved in it. so that they can get the rest of the subject if it's a conspiracy. so this is something that would have been a difficult day for all the commanders and the fbi special agent in charge to make that kind of determination of how to make the right strategy at this point. >> well, it would seem from a layperson's perspective to be a good thing. it means they think they can still apprehend these people. we may not be able to do it, we need your help? >> yeah, and you do that when you felt you have exhausted all the opportunities in terms of being able to identify and potentially capture, if in fact capture is necessary, or contact if capture is not necessary. i mean, the two biggest concerns they have, obviously, making

sure that they're doing everything to enhance, not undermine the investigation, and beyond that, always concerned about public safety. particularly if it's more than one person, people that are concerned about a potential conspiracy. it's important for them to be cautious. >> or whether anything could be planned or in the future. >> exactly. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. and tom, thanks as always to you as well. investigators are still scouring every clue from the mangled remains of the pressure cooker, the nails and bbs used in the bomb to try to find out where the parts were purchased and by whom. that evidence is another crucial part of this, if you get that together along with the photos deb's reporting on, all of a sudden you could have the answer, the break. how are investigators trying to track down the origin of the bomb parts? >> well, one of the keys to the way they're going to track this down. you mentioned just a minute ago, pictures. we said yesterday the pictures were going to be key to all of

this, and today they've been very excited about this particular picture which was taken not far from where you're standing right now. this is a picture by a tv station that shows a package of some sort in front of a railing, with people gathered behind it. >> couple this with another image that has people excited today, video coming from a camera on top of a lord & taylor across the street. let me show you where that's pointing at, the mailbox, that is where the bombing took place. let me bring in our model and talk about the placement of everything here. you right now are right over in this area. this has been cnn's position all day over here. lord & taylor is over here not far away. it's yellow in our model. look closely, because this camera that we're talking about is actually right up there on the corner of the building. and that is the second explosion site right down there.

you could see that is a completely clear line of site if, in fact, they have an image of a bomber, it would be a good one from that angle. you can see the other site, that was the first explosion, this is the second explosion. this matters because as you try to get to the physical evidence, it really helps, if you have some idea of whom you were following. even if it's been 6 or 7 people, you can start tracing them and find the origin of these relatively common items used in the bomb. erin? >> common items, a pressure cooker, we're looking at one today, it's a domestic item, but they're also trying to -- in addition to going to the video surveillance, trying to rebuild the bomb, right? >> yeah, exactly. that's exactly what they're doing. look at the items you mentioned a minute ago. the backpack, that's a common item you can find anywhere. you have the pressure cooker, we

talked yesterday about how in the explosion, parts of this may have blown up in the air. the lid was found on the roof of one of these buildings. and there are other things like ignition pieces. why do they want to put all this together? the configuration of all these things together will tell you whether or not you have all the parts. the parts you're missing may be the key part that links something who you've spotted on this street with all of this stuff. if you can link those together, you not only have a better chance of narrowing in on who was here and purchased this stuff and making an arrest, but also having a case that could stand up later on when you have to deal with all of that. out front tonight, ray lopez, former member of the fbi hazardous office for 22 years, and counter terrorism expert joining me here in boston. good to have both of you with us. let me start with you, jeff. you heard tom talk about the debris from the bomb. what are they going to be able to tell from that? i mean, a lot of these may sound

like, this is what people do with these sorts of devices, what information are they going to be able to get out of it? >> with any luck, we'll be able to determine a website, perhaps, that had a certain method to build this bomb, and if this person visited the website, we can backtrack as to who were the people that visited the website. that's part of the rehearsal that a terrorist has to go through to press home their attacks. there's about a dozen operational acts in an attack like this, some of which are detectible. that's one of them. another type of rehearsal is not only make sure your bomb is going to work, you probably rehearsed and set off the firing mechanism, but he also did choreography, i mean, i would be shocked if we found that the first time this bomber was on the street here in boston was the day of the attack. most -- >> he would have tested -- >> the imagery we got from lord & taylor or any of the other

imagery we collected this week, if we go back in the last 30 days and most surveillance cameras have at least a 30 day backup of information. and we review those cameras as well, we may get a clearer picture of a person who comes and stops at both bomb sites and that will, in fact help the investigation immensely. those are some of the operational acts that the fbi and others are following up on right now. >> makes you feel like, when you put all that together they will get an answer. >> absolutely confident. they will get an answer. >> when you look at the pictures that we have been showing of the pressure cooker and how it exploded and how you saw the pieces -- how it blew out, the parts blew in. what does it tell you about the kind of explosives that were used? >> given the pictures we are seeing, appears to be a low explosive. the parts you show in the photograph are largely larger and more bent if you will, from what appears to be a lower

explosive, low velocity explosives. one of the interesting things that your other guest mentioned is that i think this is quite unique in the sense that we have two bombings, and we may have an ability to actually look at each bombing crime scene and the components from each of those and kind of contract and compare as to what these two devices were. what's similar about them, and what was different about them. and that may give us a clue as to if the bomber had challenges putting these things together. >> ray, thank you. jeff, thank you. thank you for taking the time. we're going to take a break, we have much more on the breaking news we're following outside waco texas tonight. there's been a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant, many people are injured. the numbers are climbing. we're trying to get more information. we're going to come back with the latest after this.

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you're looking at pictures of an explosion right near waco, texas, about 18 miles away. this is a fertilizer plant, there was an explosion there around 7:50 texas time tonight. that's central time. a very severe explosion. right now, the area around it is being evacuated. people in the neighborhood have told us they have been evacuated. our understanding is that the reason is, there is a second tank of fertilizer which has not yet exploded but they are afraid might. there are many injuries, there are serious injuries, we're not yet sure on whether there are

fatalities, we're trying to get this information as it comes in. the pictures you're looking at now, we took just a few moments ago, the helicopters have been asked to leave the area, there's now an faa flight restriction over there plant, up to about 3,000 feet. when we are able to get you more pictures, we will do that. this is what it looks like about now. i huang the to bring back the ceo of hillcrest hospital. we talk every ten minutes, the situation, every time it changes dramatically. how many people have now come in to the hospital. >> we now have a total of 66 patients that we have officially registered or seen. and many of those patients, 38 of those we would list as seriously injured. we're being told by the triage station that is et is up by our

rac at the field, we are continuing to treat minor injuries there, they're being transported to our facility as well. and so at this hour, we were hopefully -- will not see many more serious injuries coming. because of the devastation i'm being told that exists there on the viscreen, it's hard to say what we can see for sure. >> glenn, are you aware at this point of any fatalities, you talk about some of these people being seriously injured, can you tell me a little bit more? >> yes. of course, we have not received any word of the number of fatalities. fortunately at this hour, everyone we've received here, continues to remain in serious or critical condition. some of the patients have been taken to surgery. we have had two children that we were supported by children's hospital down in temple, which

is 30 miles from here, they're part of our system. we felt those children needed a higher level of subspecialty care. they were immediately transported there. our burn patients have been appropriately -- they're being referred to the dallas area, there's a burn center there. burn patients would be going there. trauma would be coming here to hillcrest, being backed up by a hospital in temple. and we've received support from providence hospital as well. there have got to be people watching tonight that have loved ones living in that area. we have set up a special hotline number here at hillcrest for them to call, it's 254-202-1100. they can call and give us their information. as soon as we can find out information about their loved one, we can help them by

confirming either they're here or try to get them whatever appropriate information that we can at that particular time. i know that folks have to be worried and we want to try to minister to them as well. >> glenn, thank you very much. thank you very much, we appreciate your time again. 66 patients now have sought medical care. 38 of them seriously injured. i want to go to george smith now in west texas. we've seen a lot of conflicting reports on fatalities, what are you able to tell us? >> there's rumors of a large number of fatalities. the fire is still going on. we have rescue going on.

we have to help people, if they're in those houses, they -- it's still a very fluid situation. >> and george, of course, you talk about the rumors of the large number, again, we don't at this point know either. but what about the first responders. i know a lot of people rushed to the scene trying to help, there was the fire, the heat, the chemicals. do you know anything about the status of the first responders? >> well, i understand that there's been two fatalities.

we don't know for sure. >> george, thank you very much. we'll be checking back in with you, try to get more information as you understand it. all of you watching, just talking to george and glenn, you have an understanding how quickly this is developing and how fluid this situation is right now, all we know at this point was that there was a massive explosion, and it's caused an extensive amount of damage and injured seriosly a lot of people. that's all we know at this time. as we find out more information and we're hoping there were not fatalities. the pictures you're looking at right now, give you a feeling for how severe and massive this explosion was. these were taken a couple moments ago.

there is now an faa flight restriction around this plant, which is about 18 miles away from waco, texas. as we get an understanding how severe the situation is. it's a relatively rural area, west texas is the name of the town. there was a nursing home, which reuters has reported partially collapsed. we're unsure about that, and unsure of the status of the people who lived in that. and also there was an apartment complex nearby. people a mile away have spoken to me saying their windows were blown out. it sounded like a bomb exploded in their backyard. they have been evacuated now because of worries in a a second fertilizer tank could explode. we're going to take a break, and come back with more of a breaking news coverage in a moment. ♪

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i'm here with sanjay gupta. this is develop, we don't know how severe these injuries are. we don't know if people are dead. but you do know about these kinds of injuries. >> and we hear about fertilizer plants in particular, being a concern. some of the concerns are the same concerns you would see in any particular explosion. the sorts of blast injuries we've been talking about here in boston. the fertilizer themselves pose a particular risk. some of the fertilizers can be explosive. something known as ammonium nitrate. we're hearing reports that one of these tanks. they say a second tank has not exploded. but the first tank was quite explosive, not only leading to the blast, but the fumes that could make rescue efforts

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